PolitiFact Ohio

When asked whether Trump lost the 2020 election, Vance said "no." He added, "Did Donald Trump lose the election? Not by the words that I would use, OK?"

Brown, who has held his Senate seat since 2007 and broadly supported LGBTQ+ rights throughout his career, is running against Republican businessman Bernie Moreno in a hotly contested swing state contest.

The Senate Leadership Fund ad cites Brown’s votes on March 6, 2021, and March 22, 2024, as evidence that Brown, who generally supports LGBTQ+ rights, voted to allow transgender athletes in girls’ sports. Brown spokesperson Matt Keyes described both votes as "poison pill" amendments — designed to render legislation ineffective — to broader funding bills.

PolitiFact has scrutinized more than a dozen recent statements from Vance and Walz since each man became his party’s VP nominee. Here’s how accurate their talking points have proven so far.

JD Vance, former President Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate, was one of the first conservative politicians to elevate the falsehoods that Haitian migrants have eaten pets.

U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno joined fellow Ohioan, Republican Sen. J.D. Vance, in claiming Haitian migrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.

A real increase in immigration and a false claim about migrants eating pets have catapulted Springfield, Ohio, to the national spotlight. PolitiFact traveled to Springfield to follow the misinformation’s aftermath.

A Bernie Moreno campaign ad said U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown voted to “give illegals taxpayer-funded stimulus checks, health care, even Social Security." Politifact found that claim to be false.